The ink has dried and the letters are sealed. MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo can now call Rochester forward Paul Davis, Detroit Crockett guard Maurice Ager and Arlington (Indianapolis) forward Delco Rowley Spartans. Izzo announced the signings of the three players at an 11 a.m.
Within MSU’s new offensive scheme, the Spartan forwards are darting all over the ice and generating plenty of goals for head coach Ron Mason.But fourth-ranked MSU’s offensive glory doesn’t start and end with centers and wings.
Take away the canyons, anvils and the cartoon attributes, and sophomore wide receiver Charles Rogers and Purdue safety Stuart Schweigert could pass for Wile E.
Any hopes the MSU women’s soccer team had of continuing its season were lost Monday when the NCAA announced the 64 teams that will make up the tournament bracket.But the men’s soccer team still has four days to wait and hope that its season had that little extra spark that would push it into the 48-team bracket.The men haven’t been in the tournament since 1969, though in 1967 and 1968 the team was NCAA co-champions.The goalkeeper for the co-champion teams, MSU’S current head coach Joe Baum, said he believes this team could hold its own against the teams he played on.“I think if you look at our team today, we don’t have any All-Americans, but we’re more solid throughout the lineup,” he said.
Though MSU wasn’t one of the two teams battling for the championship, much of the attention was on Spartan freshman Andrew Formanczyk who took home the Big Ten singles consolation title. Formanczyk won three matches Sunday, and cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 win over Ohio State’s Vince Ng in the semifinals, and a 6-1, 6-3 win over Northwestern’s Jamie Sahara in the finals.
At 11 a.m. today Rochester forward Paul Davis, Detroit Crockett guard Maurice Ager and Arlington (Indianapolis) forward Delco Rowley will sign letters of intent to play for MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo in 2002.Recruiting analyst Dave Telep of bluechiphoops.com said Izzo’s new gang of recruits rests in line with some of college basketball’s more storied programs.
For the second straight week, MSU went unbeaten and untied for a weekend and still slipped in one of the national polls. This time, the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine rankings dropped MSU from No.
Another familiar foe from the past will try to knock the No. 15 MSU men’s basketball team from the Preseason NIT, when the Spartans matchup with No.
Both the MSU men’s and women’s cross country teams completed a successful outing at the Great Lakes Regional meet in Terre Haute, Ind., this weekend.
After letting in the game-winning goal from Michigan in overtime of the second round of the NCAA Tournament, MSU field hockey team’s defense may have expected criticism.But the team would have only needed to point to the tournament statistics and scores to respond to the skeptics.Up to that season-ending goal, the defense had held some elite scorers to disappointing numbers in the tournament.In the first round, the Spartan defense held Kent State to two shots in the game, shutting down their forward Arlette van Cleeff, who scored 21 goals in the regular season.Sophomore midfielder Alexandra Kyser defended van Cleeff for most of the game, and MSU head coach Michele Madison said shutting down the nation’s No.
Only three teams in the country were undefeated against Tom Izzo and the MSU men’s basketball team before Monday night - Duke, Arizona and Detroit-Mercy. Now, only two are. The Spartans (1-0) beat the Titans - a team made up of 13 Michigan natives, including eight Detroiters - 80-70 in the first round of the Preseason NIT at Breslin Center. The game opened both teams’ regular season and kept MSU’s home-winning streak intact at 45 games. But the Spartans, who haven’t beat the home-grown Titans in its last three tries, had a tough time reversing that streak Monday. “I was pleased with the win; I wasn’t always pleased with how we got it,” Izzo said.
After a miss midway through the second half, drawing shouts of “air ball” from the crowd, Detroit-Mercy guard Greg Grays shook his head Monday night at Breslin Center. Grays, a Southfield native, scored 24 points to lead the Titans on Monday night, but the rebuilding MSU men’s basketball team gave him one more reason to shake his head by the end of the night. With superior rebounding, MSU handed Grays’ team an 80-70 loss, marking the first time in four games his Titans would fall to the Spartans. MSU took the lead early going up 7-2 a minute and a half into the game. “Our plan was to just get the ball and just keep going, keep playing, it was no surprise,” junior forward Al Anagonye said.
They are definitely not blockbuster movies by any means. But regardless, MSU will take plenty of time this week analyzing film to try and correct the mistakes made in Saturday’s 37-28 loss to Indiana.
It’s been a little more than seven months since the No. 15 Spartan men’s basketball team was on the floor.For many of the Spartans, that’s been a long seven months.“We need a game,” sophomore guard Marcus Taylor said.
Weekends generally aren’t very relaxing for the fourth-ranked Spartans, who usually face a challenging two-game weekend series.But MSU (6-2-1 overall, 5-2-1 CCHA) eased to a 6-1 win over UMass-Amherst on Friday at Munn Ice Arena and kept things light for the rest of the weekend.The Spartans held a moderate practice Saturday after defeating their first nonconference foe of the season and then observed their traditional off-day Sunday.“I like it,” senior left wing Joe Goodenow said.
Indiana had more to play for Saturday than just its third conference win of the season. After embarrassing MSU 37-28 at home, the Hoosiers (3-6, 3-3 Big Ten) waited on the field until they received a dingy, yet coveted award that has been in the Spartans’ grasp since 1994.
It really wasn’t very surprising, was it? MSU lost as only MSU knows how. One week after an all-important, emotional win over rival Michigan, the Spartans choked.
The MSU men’s soccer (12-5-1) team didn’t have enough over the weekend to knock off two top 25 opponents in the 2001 Big Ten Men’s Soccer Championship in Madison, Wis.
Indiana head football coach Cam Cameron was exhausted just watching his team rush for 489 yards - a season worst for MSU’s defense.“You know what, I’d rather sit down,” Cameron said at his postgame press conference, “I’m worn out, I’m worn out.”Cameron’s weariness came watching quarterback Antwaan Randle El as he tirelessly scrambled up and down the field for 149 yards and one touchdown rushing and set up two other major ground performances.Running back Levron Williams flew 251 yards for three touchdowns and fullback Jeremi Johnson tallied 96 yards and a score of his own.
Ann Arbor - As newcomers to the NCAA Tournament, the MSU field hockey team flirted with the Final Four, but host school Michigan spoiled the team’s hopes. The No.